“We’ve talked about this before where there’s discretion for the officers. For how fast they’re going to let someone go over the speed limit… if the police stopped everyone for doing 10 or 15 kms over the speed limit on a highway, you’d have a thousand tickets in 25 minutes. People generally go 10kms over […]
“You only get 3 points but what they have for excessive speed is a ‘high risk driver premium’. So for 3 consecutive years you pay about $300 more on your insurance providing you have a car insured in your name. A lot of the young drivers are driving their parent’s cars so it won’t effect
MLAs Peter Milobar and Andrew Mercier square off in a BC budget debate! BC’s latest budget is highlighting our housing struggles. Are Vancouver drivers the worst in Canada when it comes to snow? “Grant, over your many years as a traffic police officer, I’m sure you saw a lot of fender benders in the snow.
“Would income-based traffic fines be an effective solution to tackling driving offences?” “The police aren’t going to know roadside what your income is, unless suddenly they have access to their computers, to your annual tax return from the year before…If the fines were meant to be a deterrent, there would still be no points for
Grant Gottgetreu, Former traffic cop in New West and West Vancouver, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensictrafficpro.com discusses whether or not traffic could have still been allowed to move across the Alex Fraser Bridge during a crisis situation earlier this week. “In a situation like this – I’m going to assume you’ve
